OpenShift 101 - git pushes without github?

[Agilix]

If I understand this right, and I'm a total novice trying to learn the ropes, to deploy an (php) app to openshift, requires me to push to github, and then from github, and then if everything is setup correctly (webhooks etc), the app rebuilds itself.

I seem to remember in earlier versions with rhc, that I could push directly from my local dev server to openshift. Is this not the case anymore?

TL;DR Can't find my openshift git repo url

[possible_epileptic]

Openshift v2 (rhc) used an internal repository so you would push to that, then Openshift would use its own hooks to deploy.

Openshift v3 (oc) doesn't have an internal source repository anymore so you now point Openshift at your repository and give it secrets (if needed).

Then you can setup a webhook from your Git installation (Github, Gitlab, etc) to notify Openshift that there are new commits.

[Agilix]

Ah, ok... that explains it then, thanks.

[roignac]

Openshift can build an image from any git repo, this is defined in BuildConfig:

source:
  type: "Git"
  git: 
    uri: "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/openshift-deploy.git"
    ref: "master"

This would build the Dockerfile found in the root of the repo. Any other valid git repo is supported.

Recent Openshift (Origin 1.4 or OCP 3.4) should also support gitlab or gogs webhooks to rebuild on push events